• 250 Pages
• 7 X 10
• Hardcover
• ISBN 978-1933197-494
• Copyright 2009

By Michael Banks

Before Oprah: Ruth Lyons, The Woman Who Created Talk TV, is the first complete biography of this pioneering broadcaster and tough businesswoman. It includes her life story complete with fascinating events that even she didn't want the world to see. Follow Ruth through her days as a child growing up in Columbia Tusculum to her stretch on WLW, up to the death of her daughter. Find out who she was and how she became the hardest working and most philanthropic woman in the business.

Written by Michael Banks, author of Crosley; Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation.

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